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    Kitchen Table Tarot: Pull Up A Chair, Shuffle The Cards, And Let's Talk Tarot
    Kitchen Table Tarot: Pull Up A Chair, Shuffle The Cards, And Let's Talk Tarot
    Kitchen Table Tarot: Pull Up A Chair, Shuffle The Cards, And Let's Talk Tarot
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    Kitchen Table Tarot: Pull Up A Chair, Shuffle The Cards, And Let's Talk Tarot

    Written by Melissa Cynova

    Narrated by Nicol Zanzarella

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    Learn to read with your own voice and get the answers to all of your questions.

    For years, Melissa Cynova has been sitting down with friends and neighbors who are curious about the tarot. She's heard all the questions and misconceptions that can confuse newcomers (and sometimes more experienced readers, too). Kitchen Table Tarot was written as a guide for anyone looking for no-nonsense lessons with a warm, friendly, and knowledgeable teacher.

    Join Melissa as she shares straightforward guidance on decks, spreads, card meanings, and symbols. Filled with real-life examples and personal explanations of what it's like to read the cards, this book tells it like it is and provides the information you need to read with confidence.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateMay 28, 2019
    ISBN9781515933915
    Author

    Melissa Cynova

    Melissa Cynova (she/her) has been slinging tarot cards for thirty years. Her first book, Kitchen Table Tarot, won the Independent Publishing Award for Best First Book and COVR Visionary awards. Her second book, Tarot Elements: Five Readings to Reset Your Life, was released in 2019.

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    • 5/5
      This is a no nonsense, direct approach to the tarot. She not only goes into card explanations, but she does go into certain situations you might encounter while reading tarot for others. This book helped me to piece the tarot puzzle together, especially the court cards.

      3 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Easy to relate to and understand. This book helped me understand how I already felt about cards that I pulled turned a feeling into the rational and relatable.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Funny, insightful and in a very easy-going conversational tone.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Third time reading and listening this book... among the best beginners book on tarot .

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Informative and clear. I love the way this is written and reads. I have several other tarot books I've been studying and they are a bit stiff and hard to apply/understand. This is written SO differently that I could see my cards is a much better light. She explains each card and it's reverse clearly. More importantly to me, she gives a general overview of each suit, Major arcana card, AND places in the deck and what they mean (i.e. all the aces, all the 2s, all the 3s, etc) and their connections to each other.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      I’m a beginner and this book is super helpful. She talks about each card, also the reversal. Some little antidotes and tips. I would definitely recommend this to any beginner. Next time I’ll get my deck and go through each card while listening to her.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 1/5
      I m not seeing the tarot the Same way as her. Tarot isn’t a think to promote oneself
    • 5/5
      Disclosure: I haven't read through the entire book yet, but I've been using it daily for about two months now and have really been enjoying Cynova's interpretations. She includes reversed interpretations, which I've often glossed over in the past, but now feel more comfortable with, and I love her approach of *really* taking the cards' illustrations and commonalities of suits and numbers/ranks in context--also something I never paid that much attention to. Her tone really does reflect the "kitchen table" feel--it's heartfelt and funny and down-to-earth, just as if you were sitting across from your bestie. I have checked this out from the library, but I totally plan on buying it once my renewals run out.
    • 4/5
      THIS is my go-to handbook at the moment. The examples are great, the categorization of the minor arcana by number rather than suit has been great, and this has been especially helpful as a beginner just starting to include reversed cards in readings. This is a fairly good introduction. It's not too scant about the card meanings and it doesn't give wishy washy "The cards mean whatever you want them to mean" explanations, but I don't find that it loses itself in the weeds. The author knows what shes talking about but isnt trying to show off and actually seems to want to help those looking to learn tarot.
    • 4/5
      Good book. Fun to read. Don't agree with all her meanings, but they work for her.
    • 4/5
      Author is knowledgeable but also pretty funny. This will be a great reference book that I'll keep handy.
    • 4/5
      I've read quite a few books on tarot, but really enjoyed this author's fresh take on the subject. Reading her book is, indeed, like sitting with her across the kitchen table, discussing the cards and their meanings. She also includes information you DON'T find everywhere: the ins and outs of doing readings for others, whether it's charging for your time, the etiquette of giving less-than-happy news, and what behavior or situations might abruptly end a reading. Highly recommended for anyone interested in tarot.
    • 4/5
      When I first put this book on my TBR list, it was a "generic" listing: I put almost every new tarot book on that list unless I can tell from the description that I'm not going to like it. But when I realized that the author was a blogger whose blog I enjoy, I pushed this book to the top of the list. I'm happy to report that this is a fine book for beginning tarot readers.Like the cover and title suggest, this is a casual introduction to the tarot. Cynova has focused on the practical aspects of reading the tarot, so most of the book is descriptions of the individual cards, including reversed ("inverted") meanings. She talks about choosing a deck, with suggestions which absolute beginners will probably find really useful, and how to take care of it. She describes a few spreads and talks about what it's like to give readings, plus a helpful chapter on how to do this professionally. But there's basically nothing on the history of the tarot or long discussions of the symbolism or anything like that. (If those kinds of things interest you, don't worry—many other books cover those topics.) She delivers all this in a friendly, readable style. From reading her blog, I was expecting that, and I'm happy to see she didn't get edited into an artificial formality.I think beginning readers will get the most out of this book. More experienced readers may very well enjoy reading it (I did!), but they'll have probably learned these basics already.